DC’s streaming service will be a one-stop shop for its TV shows, movies, and comics- DC announced at San Diego Comic-Con, DC that its streaming service DC Universe will launch this fall as a hub for all things DC, with content, comics, an encyclopedia, and a social platform for fans. DC Universe will cost $7.99 a month or $74.99 for an annual subscription. Subscribers who preorder will get an additional three months for free. DC will bring five original shows to the platform in conjunction with Warner Brothers, in addition to existing live-action and animated works.

Netflix and Shonda Rhimes reveal eight exclusive series in the works- Netflix announced 8 shows in development with Shonda Rhimes.- Alleged con artist Anna Delvey- Adaptation of the 2010 book The Warmth of Other Suns detailing the flight of African-Americans north from 1916-1970- Adaptation of Kleiner Perkins' Ellen Pao's memoir Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change- Based on Julia Quinn's Regency England feminist romance series.- Pick & Sepulveda set in Mexican California in the 1840as.- Adaptation of The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.- Sunshine Scouts - half hour comedy series about teenage girls at a sleepaway camp who survive the apocalypse.- Hot Chocolate Nutcracker documentary of Debbie Allen Dance Academy's award-winning reimagining of the classic ballet.

Netflix announces its first Mark Millar titles- Netflix announced the first titles from Millarworld:Jupiter's Legacy:An original series about Golden Age superheroes having kids...and those kids becoming angsty millennials.Empress:An original film about a space Empress on the run.Huck:This movie wonders if the greatest super power is just all the friends we made along the way.Sharkey:Adapted from an upcoming comic, a film about a bounty hunter. In space. Named Sharkey.American Jesus:A comic-turned-Spanish-language TV show about a boy who may or may not be the second coming of Jesus.

Amazon Orders Sci-Fi Series ‘Tales From the Loop’- Amazon has given a series order to “Tales From the Loop,” a science fiction drama from “Legion” writer Nathaniel Halpern, based on the art of Simon Stålenhag, whose paintings blend elements of futuristic science fiction with images of rural life in the Sweden.

Disney fires 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director James Gunn over 'indefensible' old tweets- Disney cut ties with James Gunn and he will not be directing Guardians of the Galaxy 3. A series of old tweets from Gunn referencing pedophilia and rape resurfaced online this week. Others tweets, which have since been deleted, included satire about 9/11, AIDS and the Holocaust. Thursday Gunn wrote, “Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor.”

Survey: 5.4 Million Americans Will Cut The Cable TV Cord In 2018- Management Consulting firm cg42 is the latest to put put a study that says cord-cutting is on the rise. cg42 projects 5.4 million more people will cut the cord in 2018 in the US for a total of 18.8 million cord-cutters. The study surveyed customers and cites frustrations with lack of reasonable rates, getting nickled and dimed with fees and new customers getting better deals than existing ones.

Comcast concedes to Disney in bidding war for Fox assets- Comcast withdrew its offer to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, leaving Disney in position to acquire everything except the broadcasting network, Fox News, Fox Businss, FS1, FS2 and the Big Ten Network which will be spun off into their own company. Disney also previously agreed with regulators to sell off the Fox Sports Regional Networks it will acquire as part of the deal. Meanwhile Comcast will focus on acquiring Sky which is 39% owned by Fox.

Dispatches from the FrontHola gents (and lady guest?),I'd like to thank you guys for a number of show alerts, mostly courtesy of Bryce. Not everything in his wheelhouse is my flavor, but he seems to find serials early that we haven't seen and enjoy.If you guys haven't talked about Letterkenny yet, you should go watch it. The first two short seasons are available on Hulu. It's Canadian dry humor full of puns and stereotype characters. It doesn't waste time with backstory we don't care about and just rapid-fires the funny.Give it a shot and see what you think.Keep cutting them cords, fellas,- Dan and Emily

Hello to all - one thing I’ve been thinking a lot is a way to watch shows without having to have a month to month membership with the different services considering that most services allow you to watch their whole catalog. For example I would pay Netflix in Jan and catch up on all the shows during that month, then cancel it. Feb I pay for Hulu and watch the first two seasons of Handsmaid, catcha few othe shows them cancel it. HBO on March, cbs all access in april, etc.Or what about an AI like you guys tak about that just gives you the algorithm (ala traveling salesman) that computes the best course to take to hit the most shows you want to watch while paying the least per month.

Love to hear your thoughts.

- Arturo

Hey Tom, Brian, and guest,

It seems like everyone compares Netflix and HBO to each other, but I don't think that's the right approach anymore. It seems that Netflix no longer wants to be HBO; they want to be your entire cable package. They now have original programming that target so many niches they cover most of the major basic cable channels. Because of this, I don't think Netflix cares about people criticizing their garbage programming - it's essentially just a channel you'd never tune in to!

Keep killing those cords,- Andy

About the listener who wrote in last week about wanting to have in-progress, "themed streams" - I think he is on to something. For horror fans, the streaming service Shudder broadcasts a constant stream of its content on rotation dubbed "Shudder TV". In fact, you don't even have to be a subscriber to access it. If you do subscribe however, you can switch between several sub-genre "channels" of Shudder's content. Because it comes up as soon as you start the app, I've found myself getting interested in movies that I haven't seen which I may not have otherwise chosen. I can always pull up the on-demand version in the app to get the beginning later. Its an easy way to discover new content without searching through titles, summaries and trailers.

Love the show - keep up the great work.- Tim

What I think Netflix (and perhaps other streaming services) needs is an "I feel lucky" button that will just "pick something" that its algorithm "knows" you'll like based on your watching history, etc. Don't like what it picks? Hit next and it could pick something else for you.

Or at least that what *I* would want! I'm not keen on dropping in, in the middle of a movie, TV show, etc. That's one reason I watch everything via streaming, DVR'd, etc.

Later!- Michael

I subscribe to some movie trailer channels on YouTube. I frequently see movies I would LIKE to watch later, but I am not aware of a service that'll let me "tag" movies that haven't even hit theaters yet that I'd like to see whenever they're available (especially on streaming). Do you know of such a service?